September 30, 2020
It is one thing when critics insist that racial identity is socially constructed and therefore acquired or discarded as one chooses. But it is quite another when they read black characters and racial......
July 2, 2020
Ta-Nehisi Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship for “[i]nterpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through . . . nuanced historical analysis.” But nuance......
January 2, 2020
In the first article for our Distinctions feature, Gene Dattell explains how the integrationist goals of the postbellum civil rights movement, emblematized by the effort to integrate schools......
March 29, 2019
A review of "A Race Odyssey," by Mary Lefkowitz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008, 202 pp., $25.00 hardbound.
November 23, 2018
How to discuss the tedious relationship of race and crime as a serious academic study.
September 23, 2016
Jeff Zorn reminisces about his own fruitful education experience at the famous Boston Latin School and discusses how recent racial protests are unfair to the school.
September 9, 2016
A review of "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race," by Derald Wing Sue
